About Activities

The Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine undertakes many different types of activities, all aimed at improving health. Each activity brings together experts and stakeholders who provide the nation with guidance on health-related issues.View our current activities and recent publications as a PDF.

Activities Index

The workshop on the Future Directions of Credentialing Research in Nursing aims to bring together participants with multiple perspectives in order to explore a conceptual framework and research agenda to evaluate the impacts of nurse and...

The Institute of Medicine will convene a standing committee for the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The standing committee will discuss issues related to research on credentialing of nurses and organizations including short- and long-term...

An ad hoc IOM committee is undertaking a review of issues in continuing education of health care professionals (in particular physicians and nurses) that are identified from the literature and from data-gathering meetings with involved parties.